Members of the Committee on Communications, Trade and Investment and civil society members drawn from Tax Justice Network - Africa, Seatini Uganda, Policy Forum of Tanzania, National Tax Payers Association of Kenya as well as ActionAid pose for a group photo after the consultations on harmful tax competition in East Africa.

The 2nd Annual General Meeting took place in Dar es Salam, Tanzania on the 9th and 10th of August, 2012. Member organisations and individual members of the network were present for this all-important meeting, which was aimed at strengthening the secretariat and providing a clear strategy for the tax justice agenda in Africa.

Screening of the movie WE’RE NOT BROKE.The movie tells the story of U.S. corporations dodging billions in income tax and how seven fed-up Americans take their frustration to the streets … and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share.

The government of Kenya is providing a wide range of tax incentives to businesses to attract greater levels of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the country. Yet this study shows that such tax incentives are leading to very large revenue losses and are anyway not needed to attract FDI.

"Governments need money. Modern governments need lots of money. How they get this money and whom they take it from are two of the most difficult political issues faced in any modern political economy” — Sven Steinmo

Urgent Notice

Please note that the TJN-A secretariat changed their email addresses. The team is no longer reachable on the old email addresses. For further information, contact: info@taxjusticeafrica.net

Policy and Advocacy Manager at Tax Justice Network- Africa, Savior Mwambwa will be joining Enrique PeñaNieto, President of Mexico, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría among others in Mexico City for The first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation from 15th-16th April, 2014.

TJN-A’s Policy and Advocacy Manager Savior Mwambwa will be attending the Meeting of Task Force on Tax and Development on Transfer Pricing and Issues in Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) from 25th -30th March 2014 at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris, France. This meeting will be held in conjunction with the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Global Forum on Transfer Pricing. It will bring together around 200 officials from over 100 countries.

TJN-A and EATJN is participating at the Seventh Joint Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. The Government of Nigeria is hosting the event which will take place from 29th-30th March 2014.This year’s conference has become the premier forum for African ministers responsible for Finance, planning and economic development and governors to discuss issues relating to Africa’s development agenda which will be held under the theme:Industrialization for Inclusive and Transformative Development in Africa.

About Tax Justice Network - Africa

Tax Justice Network-Africa (TJN-A) is a Pan-African initiative established in 2007 and a member of the global Tax Justice Network. TJN-A seeks to promote socially just, democratic and progressive taxation systems in Africa, advocating for pro-poor tax regimes and the strengthening of tax regimes to promote domestic resource mobilization. TJN-A aims to challenge harmful tax policies and practices that favour the wealthy and aggravate and perpetuate inequality

This report investigates the issue of income inequality in eight sub-Saharan African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe). While there is growing public recognition that inequality is the issue for our time - both globally and in sub-Saharan Africa – there is little definitive analysis of income inequality trends on the continent. In particular, this report seeks to locate an analysis of tax systems in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of these economic inequalities, given the primary importance of national tax systems in redistributing wealth. The report looks at national taxation systems and international taxation issues – and, critically, the relationship between them.

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